Tagged Questions

A virtual machine (VM) is a guest Operating System running in a completely isolated environment within a normal host operating system. Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization or (in most cases) both together.

I have just installed CentOS-7, Minimal Installation, into a Hyper-V VM under Windows Server 2008 R2.
When I Start the VM from Hyper-V Manager it opens a window it calls Virtual Machine Connection, ...

I would like to boot and run Windows 8 with kvm or xen while I'm running Debian Wheezy. Actually I have installed Windows 8 on the external USB disk and Debian Wheezy on the hard disk sata. I'm tryng ...

i have Centos 6 installed, it was work fine till today, but suddenly when i turned it on today my vms doesn't show any thing, all my setup are correct i know that for sure but my graphic doesnt work i ...

I am running a CentOS virtual image on virtual box. It has liferay and solr installed on it and I am trying to index a Lar file that is 50+ MB of metadata. This is estimated to take more than 12 hours ...

I am using VirtualBox 4.3, I have installed centos 6.3. I have two adpaters attached.
1) NAT
2) Host-Only
I want to be able to setup a cluster of 3 machines which can talk to each other and also be ...

I recently installed a Linux (Mint 17) virtual Machine on a Windows 7 PC. In order to be able to SSH to this virtual machine, I had to define a few rules and redirect ports as explained in other posts ...

I have a rather odd setup I'm trying to get working.
I have an Ubuntu install running in a container (through Proxmox). The host computer is CentOS. Neither server is running an X instance.
My host ...

I am trying to set up a filesystem server, so that I can use my various laptops to transparently mount a directory containing many VirtualBox VMs, some of which run full graphics environments.
I will ...

I am looking to expand my VMs storage space and have done it the following way:
Moved Vagrant to an external hard drive
Reformatted the box to .vdi, resized it, formatted back to .vmdk
Re-added the ...

I am new to virt-manager.
After having configured a virtual network (new interface virbr0) with 2 VMs that should be able to communicate, I discovered that most ports are filtered.
For example, the ...

The guidelines for Fedora remixes suggest to replaces packages fedora-logos, fedora-release, and fedora-release-notes with the generic-* equivalents when making a remix. Most tutorials online focus on ...

Before I describe the problem, I'd like to specify that I'm not confused about the size of the partitions (they haven't been extended yet, so of course they haven't grown) but the size of the actual ...

I am attempting to set up a minimal Debian or CentOS installation for internal network access.
The purpose of the setup will be to allow SSH access into the rest of the internal network—that's it. It ...

I have only 2 VM's in one of the SSD hard disk server, Hard disk size was just 120 GB. I have assigned 32 GB for each VM's but now there is only 1 GB space left in /var/lib/vz. While listing the size ...

I have a Virtualbox VM that is configured with VRDE for remote access using RDP. I'm familiar with how to set the vrde port, but for a given VM I have not found a way to query the current vrde port ...

I have a server running RHEL 6.5 that I primarily run VMs on it. The VMs I run on it are all Linux, with the exception of one that runs Server 2008 R2.
Yesterday, I attempted to install Windows 7 as ...

I want to install a virtual machine, and i need to install a SFX file. I know the command for Ubuntu is chmod +x filename.sfx But I don't know the command for Debian. Does any one know?
Please ignore ...

I began learning networking on Linux, and I am looking for a way to associate a particular IP to a particular MAC address (i.e. a way to edit the NAT table?). Actually I am trying to assign some IPs ...

I'm developing a software that needs to access the list of wifi networks in Arch Linux. This is easy, just run iwlist scanning.
The problem is: I'm running VirtualBox on Mac OS X and when I run this ...

I'm using Boxes to try out Arch Linux in a Virtual Machine. It works fine but the screen resolution is 1024x768 whereas my screen has a resolution of 1366x768. How can I make my virtual machine use ...

I've just trying use CentOS 6.5 LiveCD on VirtualBox but all my attempts fail. When the system starts I see "Automatic boot in 10 sec ..." - if I do nothing, the message disappears after 10 seconds ...

I have installed the Virtual Box, and I would like to make a Debian virtual machine but I can't do this because my Virtual Box don't allow me to choose Debian x64. My computer and the .iso file are ...

I have taken the VM image of our webserver (CentOS/jboss) and would like to run it locally on my mac as a virtual machine so I can use it as a webserver when I am offline - I am using VM Fusion.
The ...

On Arch Linux running as a guest OS on VMWare Fusion, I noticed the system time of Arch falls behind when I sleep the host OS and never gets back in sync. It appears systemd-timesyncd is loaded but ...

Objective: I would like to install several virtual (emulated) Raspberry machines on the laptop, connect them to each other and to the laptop. Afterwards I would like to send tcp packets from virtual ...

I recently purchased an external monitor which I succesfully connected to my Lenovo Thinkpad and the accompanying Lenovo Advanced Dock via a DVI-D cable and it works fine so far.
Unfortunately, I'd ...

I have installed a virtual machine RHEL 6.1 using Oracle Virtual Box on my Windows 7 Computer.
I have set the network options to Bridged adapter mode, my host Computer (Win-7) is connected on my home ...